Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Kenya and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing The Moody Blues to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. All the underground hits.
All Glenn Branca tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Joe & The Fish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vladislav Delay,
Eric B and Rakim,
the Association,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Shuggie Otis,
Lee Hazlewood,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
New Age Steppers,
The Sonics,
Theoretical Girls,
Main Source,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Human League,
Letta Mbulu,
The Red Krayola,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
kango's stein massive,
The Gories,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Au Pairs,
Arcadia,
Delta 5,
Sex Pistols,
The Skatalites,
The Shadows of Knight,
Yazoo,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Junior Murvin,
a-ha,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Deepchord,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Whodini,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Wasted Youth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Toasters,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Don Cherry,
Brass Construction,
The New Christs,
Suburban Knight,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Grey Daturas,
The Zeros,
Jesper Dahlback,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Symarip,
the Swans,
Animal Collective,
Judy Mowatt,
Ice-T,
Matthew Halsall,
Clear Light,
Joensuu 1685,
Groovy Waters,
The American Breed,
Sister Nancy,
Lungfish,
Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.